Is sitting by a motorway healthier than smoking a hubble-bubble? ****************************************************************************************** * Sedět vedle dálnice zdravější než kouřit vodní dýmku? ****************************************************************************************** 4. 5. 2011, By: P.K., Translation: Pavla Horáková The majority of Charles University students have no idea that water-pipe smoking is more h cigarette smoking – according to a poll carried out by fourth-year students from the Charl First Faculty of Medicine. Two thirds of almost 700 respondents displayed alarming ignoran believed that the hubble-bubble was safer than or equally harmful as cigarette smoking. “Smoking the hookah is not primarily about nicotine (even though it is possible to develop students to meet in a teahouse and order a hubble-bubble. In most cases no one asks about of Medicine, who conducted the research along with her fellow students. The absence of health risk prevention is startling; even though 92 percent of the students risk of infection, only 34 percent protect themselves actively (by using their own mouthpi water pipe with multiple tubes or using their own hookah). After one session the levels can reach a state of clinical poisoning The students’ research included measurements of levels of exhaled carbon monoxide. Using t Smokelyzer device manufactured by Bedfont to analyze the exhaled levels, the students foun depending on the depth of breath, a passive water pipe smoker can have more than double th of carbonylhaemoglobin than if he or she were standing in the midst of a traffic jam or ta alongside a motorway. In the case of an active smoker the levels can easily reach the state of clinical poisonin session. Its first signs – headache, vertigo, nausea, clouded thinking and facial hyperaem wrongly considered by the smokers as a natural part of the smoking ritual. The myth of the filtration power of water During a session a smoker inhales a large amount1 of smoke and carcinogenic substances. Su almost 40 percent of university students believe in the purifying power of water. However, only filters out some of the nicotine. Its main function is to cool the smoke in order to inhalation. The CO and tar content is comparable to smoking 20–200 cigarettes (depending on the volume demonstrably larger quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (chrysene, phenanthrene by improper burning as well as aromatic oils, molasses and glycerol, added to the tobacco Hubble-bubbles have become fashionable in recent years a Faculty of Medicine suggests. An increase in the number almost 67 percent of people aged 15–24 have smoked the h If you fancy going to a teahouse and lighting up a hubbl exceeds the European tar limit as many as 102 times comp Besides less common problems such as tobacco addiction or insufficient blood supply to org - increased heart rate, higher systolic and diastolic pressure, faster breathing3 - damage to lung function similar to that caused by cigarette smoking, potentially resulti - water pipe smoking increases oxidative stress for the organism5 - changes to the eardrum5 - dry socket after mandibular 3rd molar extraction5 - TB infection was reported after sharing a hubble-bubble5 Researchers: Blahutová S., Čapka D., Gonosová Z., Klottonová P., Kratoňová J., Kravčák J., Štěrbová K. [1] A smoker can inhale 70 litres of smoke during one session (Ježková M. refers to a Fren studies mention for example 90 litres (Shihadeh A, Azar S, Antonios C, Haddad A.: Towards model of narghile water-pipe café smoking: a pilot study in a high socioeconomic status ne Beirut, Lebanon. Pharmacol Biochem Behav.,79, 2004: 75-82.) [2] Martinasek MP, McDermott RJ, Martini L.:Waterpipe (hookah) tobacco smoking among youth Pediatr Adolesc Health Care, 41 (2), 2011 : 34-57. [3] Hakim F, Hellou E, Goldbart A, Katz R, Bentur Y, Bentur L.: The acute effects of water the cardiorespiratory system; Chest, 139(4), 2011: 775-81. [4] Raad D, Gaddam S, Schunemann HJ, Irani J, Abou Jaoude P, Honeine R, Akl EA.: Effects o Smoking on Lung Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis; Chest,139(4), 2011: 764-7 [5] NIPH report on water pipe smoking [ URL "http://www.szu.cz/uploads/documents/czzp/zavi vodni_dymka_feb10/KOURENI_VODNI_DYMKY.pdf"]